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Infra · Skills roadmap

What a DevOps / Platform Engineer does

Build the pipelines, infrastructure and guard rails that let teams ship safely and often.

  • 36 to 60 weeks to job-ready, part time
  • 47 lessons across 18 skills
  • 12 portfolio projects

59 lessons and projects. Progress saves in this browser.

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The job

DevOps and platform engineers build and run the path from a commit to production: pipelines, infrastructure as code, containers and Kubernetes, monitoring, and the security guard rails around all of it. Platform engineers package this into self-service tools other teams use.

This roadmap is built from 50 job descriptions posted in the last 90 days. It starts with Linux, Git, CI and containers, adds Terraform, Kubernetes and monitoring, and ends with safe delivery, incident response, supply-chain security and golden paths.

At about 12 hours a week, most people reach Job-ready in 9 to 14 months, faster if you already work as a developer or system administrator.

What employers look for

We read 50 DevOps, Site Reliability and Platform Engineer job descriptions posted between July and September 2026: 32 in India and 18 global remote roles.

  • Delivery pipelines are the job. CI/CD appears in 98% of postings and Git in 86%.

  • Everything is code and containers. Docker and infrastructure as code (mostly Terraform) appear in 84% each, Kubernetes in 80%.

  • You run what you ship. Monitoring and observability appear in 72%.

  • AWS leads the clouds. AWS in 66%, Azure 48% and Google Cloud 30%.

  • Linux and scripting are expected. Bash in 48%, Linux in 46%, Python in 44%.

  • Security is part of the role. Compliance appears in 40%, security fundamentals in 30%, identity and access in 22%; networking in 28%.

  • Configuration management persists. Ansible and similar tools appear in 24%.

Method, full frequency tables and every job link are in the research file linked from this page.

The skills you will learn

18 skills, about 36 to 60 weeks part time. Each one opens with its lessons split into Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced.

What most courses miss

Many DevOps courses are tool tours. The job descriptions ask for safe, repeatable operations. This roadmap adds:

  • Proof over configuration: restore drills, alert unit tests, idempotence tests and policy tests.

  • Least privilege by default: scoped IAM policies, OIDC instead of stored keys, and explicit denies, all tested.

  • Safe delivery: canaries with automated analysis and rollback through Git.

  • Incidents as a skill: game days, runbooks and blameless postmortems with implemented actions.

  • Platform thinking: golden paths measured by how quickly other developers can ship.

50 current postings analysed (32 India, 18 global remote), collected 30 September 2026. CI/CD in 98%, Git in 86%, Docker and infrastructure as code in 84%, Kubernetes in 80%. Source

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